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arg, I'm just missing out again! This is brutal. And I can't chase cause I'm back to work finally.

I’m using more water in the last few weeks than I have in some entire years. It’s pretty parched. These storms have been so hit or miss. I missed out on 3/4 of an inch by 10 miles today. Would have been nice.

Letchworth got clobbered by a stationary/back building storm today. Nearly 4 inches in an hour.

Check out Northern Maine today, under heat advisories. Already 88 degrees in Caribou at 11am with a forecast high of 96. Pretty amazing that Northern Maine will be hotter than any of us will get all summer. What a wild spring it has been.

Thats a weird take. What exactly has changed? The disease is still just as dangerous, still just as contagious, still no good treatment. People are just getting bored and reckless. The people you speak of are critical thinkers who understand risk and have patience. The phases don't mean any less risk if you catch this, just a slightly lower chance of being infected. Also, aren't you the guy who continually posted updates over and over with the new numbers, basically acting as an arm of media and spreading the fear among this group?

May 25-27, 2013 whiteface mountain summit reported 3 feet of new snow. Absolutely amazing event. And now snow nearly 3 weeks after that date is quite impressive too.

Albany broke an all time coldest 850mb temp record which stood for like 100 years, so the cold this past weekend was borderline historic. I guess it all adds up and it makes the high peaks all that more awesome that they can get winter weather 10 months a year.

I have a friend that is slowly chugging through the 46 peaks and he was up there this past Saturday working on some peaks and took some video of pretty good snow showers. I've never heard of snow in the high peaks this deep into Spring/Summer. Is this extremely unusual or does this happen more often than I realized? I was completely blown away by it.

There were many locations available in Rochester starting in early May and there was virtually no wait. I called, made the appointment and got the test a few hours later. The wife and I both got tested and both were negative, boooo. A quick google search seems to show locations in the Buffalo area. The test is covered if you have insurance under the CARES act.

Well it certainly didn’t end up being a dry frontal passage, so that’s good. Definitely needed the rain. Kind of weird to see the squall line flatten and spread out the way it did.

I have to wonder if the seasonal depression many people experience is exacerbated by the fact that we hunker down and basically don't touch the ground or earth for 4-6 months each winter. Certainly intriguing. Also, think about walking around on a carpet in socks. You build up an incredible amount of static electricity that is actually a very high voltage. That can't be good for our circuits. I was wildly skeptical of this idea but am quickly coming around to the idea that it really might be helpful

I'm currently working out a deal with the ROC airport to inflate their numbers even higher next winter to prevent this from happening. I'm thinking we might even get a 200" season if I can round up a enough cash. Taking donations....

I'm a very scientific guy so I'm definitely a little skeptical, but I also can see how some of this makes pretty good logical sense. Humans certainly involved to be in contact with the earth nearly all the time for thousands upon thousands of years (that is until modern inventions began to isolate us from the earth). That certainly happened much faster than we could evolve so perhaps we are living out of electrical balance. Our bodies are run on electrical signals, so there is definitely some intriguing connections between being grounded and not grounded. That said, the placebo effect is incredibly strong so I'm wary of buying into this completely. Would definitely like to see some rigorous double blind studies and will continue to look into this. So if nothing else, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had never heard about it until you mentioned it and find it quite interesting.

Hey Wolfie, you were always tracking something and always trying to remain optimistic. You will be missed but I know you'll still be back to get your fix. Good luck in your future endeavors and thanks for always being a level headed weather watcher with us.

Pretty unusual to see a nearly dry frontal passage tonight with such a massive air mass change. I guess thats what you get when the front crosses at 4am. Also, highs in the upper 50's/low 60's on Saturday, thats ****ing garbage. Can't stand cold temps now that we are getting deep into the warm season. Frustrating few days of weather here, at least for me.

Some rare good news on the COVID-19 front. Seems like asymptomatic spreading isn't nearly as likely as first feared. This could start to change the whole game if true. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html

Only had very heavy rain and thunder here but appears to have developed some hail and gusty winds just downstream of me.

One perfect cell taking dead aim at my backyard! What a treat! Just a nice perfect summer thunderstorm.

The High Res NAM does really well with warm season convection, or it has as of late.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 845 AM EDT WED JUN 03 2020 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1052 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 W NIAGARA FALLS 43.09N 79.06W 06/02/2020 NIAGARA NY BROADCAST MEDIA LARGE TREE FELL ON HOUSE ON 4TH STREET 1105 PM HAIL GRANDYLE VILLAGE 42.99N 78.95W 06/02/2020 M1.50 INCH ERIE NY BROADCAST MEDIA 1109 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 ESE SOLDIERS PLACE 42.92N 78.86W 06/02/2020 ERIE NY NWS EMPLOYEE SEVERAL MASSIVE TREES DOWN ON HORTON PLACE 1112 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 S SOLDIERS PLACE 42.91N 78.88W 06/02/2020 ERIE NY BROADCAST MEDIA LARGE TREE FELL ON CAR ON ELMWOOD AVE. 1113 PM HAIL SOLDIERS PLACE 42.92N 78.87W 06/02/2020 M1.00 INCH ERIE NY TRAINED SPOTTER HAIL IN ELMWOOD VILLAGE 1115 PM HAIL BUFFALO 42.89N 78.86W 06/02/2020 M1.00 INCH ERIE NY BROADCAST MEDIA 1120 PM HAIL 2 ENE LACKAWANNA 42.83N 78.80W 06/02/2020 E1.25 INCH ERIE NY TRAINED SPOTTER 1124 PM TSTM WND DMG BUFFALO 42.88N 78.87W 06/02/2020 ERIE NY TRAINED SPOTTER LARGE TREE DOWN ON CLINTON STREET. 1124 PM MARINE TSTM WIND 2 W BUFFALO 42.89N 78.90W 06/02/2020 M69 MPH LEZ041 NY NOS-NWLON 1143 PM HAIL 1 NW COLDEN 42.65N 78.70W 06/02/2020 M1.00 INCH ERIE NY COCORAHS 1144 PM TSTM WND DMG BERGEN 43.08N 77.94W 06/02/2020 GENESEE NY LAW ENFORCEMENT TREE DOWN ON RT 19 1147 PM HAIL 1 NW COLDEN 42.65N 78.70W 06/02/2020 M1.00 INCH ERIE NY TRAINED SPOTTER 1201 AM HAIL 2 SSE EAST CONCORD 42.53N 78.63W 06/03/2020 M1.25 INCH ERIE NY TRAINED SPOTTER HAIL JUST OVER 1.25 INCHES 1212 AM HAIL GLENWOOD 42.62N 78.66W 06/03/2020 M1.25 INCH ERIE NY SOCIAL MEDIA 1212 AM FLASH FLOOD 2 WNW SLOAN 42.90N 78.83W 06/03/2020 ERIE NY SOCIAL MEDIA SYCAMORE ST. AND WALDEN FLOODED WITH FOUR PEOPLE TRAPPED IN A CAR. 1212 AM HAIL YORKSHIRE 42.52N 78.48W 06/03/2020 M1.25 INCH CATTARAUGUS NY SOCIAL MEDIA 1215 AM FLASH FLOOD 1 W SOLDIERS PLACE 42.93N 78.90W 06/03/2020 ERIE NY SOCIAL MEDIA RAMP I-190S TO ROUTE 198E CLOSED BECAUSE OF FLOODING. 1220 AM TSTM WND DMG MACHIAS 42.42N 78.49W 06/03/2020 CATTARAUGUS NY LAW ENFORCEMENT MULTIPLE TREES DOWN. 1222 AM FLASH FLOOD WINCHESTER 42.87N 78.79W 06/03/2020 ERIE NY SOCIAL MEDIA EAST BOUND ON I-90 AT EXIT 51 FLOODED. 1225 AM TSTM WND GST 6 SSE DELEVAN 42.42N 78.42W 06/03/2020 M61 MPH CATTARAUGUS NY MESONET 1225 AM TSTM WND DMG WEST VALLEY 42.40N 78.61W 06/03/2020 CATTARAUGUS NY BROADCAST MEDIA LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN ACROSS DRIVEWAY 1236 AM TSTM WND DMG ELLICOTTVILLE 42.27N 78.67W 06/03/2020 CATTARAUGUS NY LAW ENFORCEMENT MULTIPLE TREES DOWN. 1242 AM TSTM WND DMG CUBA 42.22N 78.28W 06/03/2020 ALLEGANY NY LAW ENFORCEMENT WIRES DOWN. 1252 AM TSTM WND DMG BOLIVAR 42.07N 78.17W 06/03/2020 ALLEGANY NY LAW ENFORCEMENT TREE DOWN.

While the presence and placement of last nights storms was well forecasted, the intensity was a huge miss. Quite fascinating to see an event like this occur with very little advanced warning. The Hazardous Weather product called out Gusty Winds and heavy rain as the primary threat, and confidence seemed low from the verbiage in the discussions. We ended up with 60,000ft storms spitting golf ball size hail, winds gusting to 70mph, rain rates near 3-5"/hr, and continuous cloud to ground lightning for well over an hour in some locations. It's kind of fun to know that a storm can still catch us almost completely off-guard. We had the best snowstorm of the year the second week of November. We had nice Spring weather in March. And we just saw the most intense thunderstorms that we'll see all summer and potentially for several years happen the first week of June. We've really blown our loads early these last few seasons.

Round 2 is charging across Michigan and on schedule to hit buffalo again around 8-9am. We’ll see what happens as diurnal effects usually weaken and turn these systems sharply south. Could be a hell of a 12 hour window of storms though.

Lot of really interesting things in that loop. Notice how that first big cell that hits Niagara county turns a bit right and really dives straight south into the more unstable downstream air. Nocturnal storms are definitely WNY’s best chance at severe weather.

I just chased it and nearly got more than I bargained for. I was able to cut off this cell. Next thing you know I was in one of the strongest hail cores I’ve seen around here in awhile. I think I sustained a few dents and chipped windshield. Daylight will tell. It went from whoa fun to holy shit really fast. Haha. Super powerful storm though. Absolutely continuous lightning.

I can see the top of that storm from my patio. The lightning is absolutely continuous from this vantage. Just amazing. I can even see cloud structure. I’m 50 miles away!